One Second After
William R. Forstchen
ONE SECOND AFTER
A TOM DOHERTY ASSOCIATES BOOK
New York
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
All books are, in a way, the works of others ... those who inspired me as a kid, taught me to be a teacher, a writer, a father. Those of you who grew up with science fiction during the Cold War will remember Alas Babylon, and the chilling movies Testament and On the Beach. The nightmares of that time did not happen, but one does wonder, if their warning insured that indeed such things did not h ...